i$o OF DRUNKENNESS. SECT. XXI. 10. 



are to be explained, as in the laft paragraph, by the 

 irritative ideas belonging to the various fenfes being 

 now excited by internal flimuli, or by their adora- 

 tions with other irritative motions. And that thp 

 inebriate, like one in a dream, believes the external 

 objects, which ufually caufed thefe irritative ideas, tq 

 be now prefent. 



TO. The difeafes in confequence of frequent ine- 

 briety, or of daily taking much vinous fpirit without 

 inebriety, confiit in the paralyfis which is liable to 

 fucceed violent (limulation. Organs, whofe actions 

 are affociated with others, are frequently more af- 

 fected than the organ, which is ftimulated into too 

 violent action. See Sect. XXIV. 2, 8. Hence in, 

 drunken people it generally happens, that the; fecre- 

 tpry veflels of the liver become firft paralytic, and a, 

 torpor with confequent gall-ftones or fchirrus of this 

 vifcus is induced with concomitant jaundice ; other- 

 wife it becomes inflamed in confequence of previous, 

 torpor, and this inflammation is frequently transfer- 

 red to a more fenfible part, which is aflbciated with 

 it, and produces the gout, or the rofy eruption of 

 the face, orforne other leprous eruption on the head, 

 or arms, or legs. Sometimes the ftomach is firft 

 affected, and paralyfis of the lacteal fyitem is indu- 

 ced : whence a total abhorrence from Hem-food, and 

 general emaciation. In others the lymphatic fyftem 

 is affected with paralyfis, and dropfy is the confe- 

 quence. In Tome inebriates the torpor of the liver 

 produces pain without apparent fchirrus, or gall- 

 hones, or inflammation, or confequent gout, and in 

 thefe epilepfy or irifanity are often the confequence. 

 All which will be more fully treated of in the courfe 

 of this work. 



I am well aware that it is a common opinion, that 

 the gout is as frequently owing to gluttony in eating, 

 as to intemperance in drinking fermented or fpiri- 

 tuous liquors. To this I anfwer, that I have feen 



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